I was reading about sleep last night, just because I find sleep such a weird thing to do, lay down and become completely vulnerable. But I came across an article about sleep and bipolars. It was talking about how people with bipolar can experience night terrors, nightmares and much more vivid dreams at a much higher rate than the general population. Most children with night terror outgrow it, but with bipolar it can just hang around forever.
I found it interesting since I saw a dr for night terrors as a child and I still haven't out grown it. My dreams are so vivid, strange and usually very graphic and violent. It's always been that way for me.. Making me not enjoy even the thought of sleeping.
So how many of you deal with this kind of dreaming? Anyone find any ways to help ward off the awful dream states?
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